Hormuz Island
Hormuz Island, also spelled Hormoz, Ormoz, Ormuz or Ormus, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bandar Abbas County, Iran
- Also known as: “Jazīreh Hormoz”, “Jazireh-ye Hormoz”, “Jezirat Hormuz”, “Ormuz”, and “Ormuz Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hormuz.
Hormuz
Photo: Hasanbardal, GFDL.
Hormuz or Hormoz is a town on Hormuz Island, off the Southwest coast of Iran. Hormuz was a fairly important city in medieval times, such as when Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta visited it, but today is only a town of about 6,000.
Hormuz Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Hormozgan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hormuz Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hormoes (eiland)”
- Afrikaans: “Hormoes”
- Arabic: “جزيرة هرمز”
- Arabic: “هرمز (جزيرة)”
- Arabic: “هرمز”
- Assamese: “হৰমুজ দ্বীপ”
- Azerbaijani: “Hörmüz adası”
- Bavarian: “Hormus”
- Belarusian: “Армуз”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Армуз”
- Bengali: “হরমুজ দ্বীপ”
- Bulgarian: “Ормуз”
- Bulgarian: “Хормуз”
- Catalan: “Illa d’Hormoz”
- Catalan: “Illa d’Hormuz”
- Catalan: “illa d’Ormuz”
- Catalan: “Illa d’Ormuz”
- Cebuano: “Jazīreh-ye Hormoz”
- Chinese: “霍爾木茲島”
- Croatian: “Hormuz”
- Czech: “Hormuz”
- Danish: “Hormuz Ø”
- Danish: “Hormuz”
- Dutch: “Hormoez”
- Dutch: “Hormoz”
- Dutch: “Hormuz”
- Dutch: “Ormoez”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره هرمز”
- Esperanto: “Hormuz”
- Esperanto: “Hormuzo”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Hormuzo”
- Finnish: “Hormuz (saari)”
- Finnish: “Hormuz”
- French: “île d’Ormuz”
- French: “Île d’Ormuz”
- French: “Ormuz”
- Galician: “Illa de Ormuz”
- German: “Hormus”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ορμούζ”
- Hebrew: “הורמוז (אי)”
- Hebrew: “הורמוז”
- Hungarian: “Hormuz”
- Irish: “Oileán Hormuz”
- Italian: “Hormuz”
- Japanese: “ホルムズ島”
- Korean: “호르무즈섬”
- Lithuanian: “Hormūzas”
- Malagasy: “Hormuz (nosy)”
- Malagasy: “Hormuz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hormuz”
- Norwegian: “Hormuz”
- Ossetian: “Ормуз”
- Persian: “جزيره هرمز”
- Persian: “جَزيرِه هُرمُز”
- Persian: “جزیره هرمز”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ هرمز”
- Persian: “هُرمُز”
- Polish: “Ormuz”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ormuz”
- Portuguese: “Ormuz”
- Romanian: “Insula Ormuz”
- Russian: “Ормуз”
- Russian: “Хормуз”
- Serbian: “Hormoz”
- Serbian: “Хормоз”
- Serbian: “هرمز”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hormuz”
- Spanish: “Isla de Ormuz”
- Spanish: “Isla Ormuz”
- Spanish: “Ormuz”
- Swedish: “Hormuz”
- Tamil: “ஹோர்முஸ் தீவு”
- Turkish: “Hürmüz Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Ормуз”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ہرمز”
- Uzbek: “Hormuz”
- Western Frisian: “Hormûz”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرہ ہرمز”
- Wu Chinese: “霍尔木兹岛”
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